Radiator cooler



A. L; DANIELS RADIATOR COOLER "April 2 1925.

Filed July 21, 1922 W w W W l W INVENTOR. A. I. .Dazn'elr,

BY and ATTORNEYS.

Patented Apr. 28, 1925.

PATENT OFFICE.

ADDISON L. DANIELS, OF SIOUX CITY, IOWA.

RADIATOR COOLER.

Application filed July 21, 1922. Serial No. 576,460.

To all w 71.0722. it may concern Be it known that I, Annison L. DANIELS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Sioux City, in the county of Noodbury and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Radiator Coolers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention aims to provide an improved radiator attachment for motor vel 'cle radiators which cools the circulating liquid and obviates the use of the usual fan on a water cooled motor.

The invention has for a further object the production of a device of this class which is inexpensive in production, thoroughly efficient and dependable in operation, and not unsightly.

These and other objects and advantages I successfully attain in the embodiment hereinafter described, defined in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this application and in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout both views, of which Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a device constructed in accordance with my invention, a part being cut away and shown in section, and

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal, central section of the same taken at right angle to Fig. 1, and as applied to a radiator.

In the illustration 3 represents the usual threaded neck of a motor vehicle radiator, represented in part at 41. My improvement consists of an elbow-shaped tube, 5, the lower end of which is suitably threaded, as at (3, or otherwise adapted to be suitably se cured to the radiator neck. The upper or front end or mouth of the tube, 5, is on- .larged in a bell shape, as at '7. The opposite sides of the tube, 5, are provided with eduction openings, 8, and in the present em bodiment I provide the tube on its opposite sides with oppositelydisposed, tubular handles, 9, preferably formed integrally with the tube and communicating with the interior of the tube through the openings, 8.

For ornamentation the ends of the handles, 9, are formed with balls, 10. The handles, 9, serve as convenient means for screwing and unscrewing the attachment to and from the radiator neck, and also serve as eduction passages for the heated air. When properly positioned on the radiator the device is so disposed that its mouth is forwardly direct:- ed and the handles, 9, disposed transversely of the vehicle. By virtue of this construc tion as the vehicle travels forwardly a continuous current of cold, fresh air enters the mouth of the tube, passes downwardly adjacent the walls of the tube and over the surface of the cooling liquid within the radiator, and then is drawn outwardly through the passages, 9, by virtue of the draft created by the air passing the ends of the passages, 9, as the vehicle moves forwardly. I

have proved conclusively that with this attachment it is impossible to overheat the water in the radiator, and that the presence of the usual fan is superfluous. In cold weather with my device kerosene may be used as a cooling medium with most satisfactory results as there is no offensive odor or danger from overheating of the kerosene, and when alcohol is used as a cooling means the device reduces the evaporation thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent of the United States, is

A cooling device for a radiator having a threaded neck including an elbow tube adapted to be mounted in the threaded neck, laterally extending handles thereon for manipulating the elbow tube, the elbow having a forwardly-chrected mouth, and the handles having eduction passages communicating with the interior of the elbow tube, the eduction passages being located substantially centrally fore and aft of the elbow tube, whereby a current of air may follow a path into the elbow tube, along the back thereof, and from the tube along the sides thereof to the eduction passages.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 10th day of July, 1922.

ADDISON L. DANIELS. 

